Quentin Letts: Short arm of the law packs a punch on foreign travel

Well she certainly terrifies me. Priti Patel clomped into the Downing Street news conference, shot the cameras an imperious glance and proceeded to give the nation some Friday-afternoon punishment. Whack, biff, wallop: house arrest for foreign travellers, fines of a thousand jimmies if you disobey, and we can all kiss goodbye to a sniff of the Med this summer. A happy weekend to you, too, home secretary.

Ms Patel is the short arm of the law: crooked elbow, raised swiftly to clout you under the chin and knock you senseless. People thought Michael Howard was hard? Mere earwax compared to this one. She’s a boulder-cruncher. Handshake like a Kenwood Mixer. Height-wise there may not be much of her but look at the trouble Nick Nack